The parents of the children who lived through the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have finally been given access to shocking footage of the aftermath.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Indiana s governor wrote a Washington Post op-ed calling for the federal government to allow states to sponsor immigrants to fill labor shortages.
Sarah Silverman has quipped US Army recruitment is low because children already face the prospect of being shot at school so are less likely to volunteer to go to war.
This exercise in kabuki theater, repeated over and over, makes clear the extent to which the US civilian political leadership has become merely a means to package decisions made by the Pentagon to the broader public.